HIV/AIDS Children Afflicted With AIDS & HIV
Singer Elton John is joined by Ryan White, left, and Jason Robertson - both suffering from AIDS - as he performs at "For The Love of Children," a benefit for children with AIDS and other serious illnesses at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. White died from AIDS after receiving a tainted blood transfusion. He served as a young spokesman in America, countering the public's fears and ignorance about AIDS and HIV. John appeared on stage for the first time in two years.
Adrian Simwu, 3, who is infected with HIV - the virus which causes AIDS - suffers from a skin disease and cries in his crib at the Nyumbani House in Karen, near Nairobi. Nymbani House gives shelter to some 50 children with HIV, most abandoned or orphaned when their parents died of AIDS. In a sobering account of the worldwide impact of HIV, the United States Agency for International Development, reported that 40 million children in developing countries will be without one or both parents by 2010.
Sarah, Duchess of York, receives a kiss from Mufasa, 3, a resident at the Incarnation Children's Center in New York. The Duchess - whose foundation, "Chances for Children," provides support to the center - paid a visit to the 24-hour residence for HIV/AIDS-infected children.
An unidentified baby is fed at a home for HIV/AIDS and abandoned children on World AIDS Day in Soweto, South Africa. An American pharmaceutical company promised on May 6, 1999, it would provide $100 million toward AIDS therapy research and the training of doctors to fight the disease in Africa - the continent hit hardest by the deadly epidemic.
Six-month-old Roath Chamrouen - abandoned at birth and infected with the HIV virus - is handled gently by Ly Da, a nurse at Phnom Penh Nutrition Center in Cambodia. Da says of the HIV/AIDS children in her care, "I feel pity because they are born from parents with AIDS, but I love these children as my own."
The son of a prostitute - 10-year-old Deep, who uses a single name - sits amongst other HIV affected children at an HIV affected children's home in Sangli city, 193 miles southeast of Bombay, a week before World AIDS Day. Doctors say Deep is HIV positive and the wound on the back of his head is unlikely to heal. World AIDS Day, recognized on Dec. 1, marks an effort to raise awareness about the disease.
